Report: Establishment Republicans are worried that their party is on the eve of destruction

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Aug 17, 2013 at 11:05 AMAug 17, 2013 at 4:15 PM

Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei, who pride themselves as pulse-takers of Washington politics, DISCERN a sense of panic in certain quarters these days:

It is almost impossible to find an establishment Republican in town who’s not downright morose about the 2013 that has been and is about to be. Most dance around it in public, but they see this year as a disaster in the making, even if most elected Republicans don’t know it or admit it.

Several influential Republicans told us the party is actually in a worse place than it was Nov. 7, the day after the disastrous ...

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Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei, who pride themselves as pulse-takers of Washington politics, DISCERN a sense of panic in certain quarters these days:

It is almost impossible to find an establishment Republican in town who’s not downright morose about the 2013 that has been and is about to be. Most dance around it in public, but they see this year as a disaster in the making, even if most elected Republicans don’t know it or admit it.

Several influential Republicans told us the party is actually in a worse place than it was Nov. 7, the day after the disastrous ...

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